Career Design

How do you Seamlessly Integrate CPD Hours into Your Busy Schedule? EASY you do your CPD while driving, sitting on the train, walking the dog or while you're at the gym! Welcome to a new way to do CPD. No more juggling tight project deadlines, client meetings, and site visits, all while trying to carve out time for Continuous Professional Development (CPD). In today's fast-paced world, finding time for CPD can feel nearly impossible for architects. You're not alone in this struggle; it's a common challenge due to the demanding nature of the profession.

You’re not imagining it. If it feels like you made it through design school without learning exactly how to run your business, you are not alone. Even with the best education available, designers are not taught the essential systems, procedures, protocols, and strategies needed to operate a successful interior design business. Until now. Business of Design® is your most reliable, trusted resource. These may seem like lofty goals, but experience has shown us that all of this and more is attainable with Business of Design®.

This book employs scientific evidence to examine why humans tend to make poor investment choices. Most investors continue to see their investment results harmed by the book’s two main themes: fear and greed. Fear and greed are human emotions that are as old as history, even prehistory. The bible also cites fear, greed, envy, and desire as destructive influences, so this has been going on for a long time.

Even for experienced facilitators, putting together a two-hour workshop can be daunting. Where to start? What to include? How to engage the audience? How to create impact and positive results? Above all, how to do all this quickly and effectively? Drawing on years of experience designing and delivering workshops all over the world, Leanne Hughes' The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint gives you a formula to create sessions that hit the mark every time.

In October 2003, Patti Digh's stepfather was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died 37 days later. The timeframe made an impression on her. What emerged was a commitment to ask herself every morning: What would I be doing today if I had only 37 days left to live? The answers changed her life and led to this new kind of book. Part meditation, part how-to guide, part memoir, Life is a Verb is all heart. Digh identifies six core practices to jump-start a meaningful life.

User experience doesn’t happen on a screen; it happens in the mind, and the experience is multidimensional and multisensory. This practical book will help you uncover critical insights about how your customers think so you can create products or services with an exceptional experience. Corporate leaders, marketers, product owners, and designers will learn how cognitive processes from different brain regions form what we perceive as a singular experience. Author John Whalen shows you how anyone on your team can conduct "contextual interviews" to unlock insights.

Whether interviewing, selling, networking, or leading a team, brainstorming with the boss or delivering a presentation, success in business depends on connecting with other people. Nicholas Boothman, the best-selling author who consults with Fortune 500 companies, now brings his system of forging instant relationships to the world of business. Beginning with the simplest of tools (face, body, attitude, and voice) he shows how to make a dazzling first impression.

Why do some writers and creators become known for a term, a phrase, or even an entire category, while others (talented as they might be) fade away? Because the most memorable writers and creators become known for a niche they own. And, more importantly, they invented new language to help them show the world how and why they are different.

Ready to make and publish your first mobile app? Creating your first iPhone and Android app can be a stressful jump head-first into the great unknown. Are you ready to skip all the drama and create a successful app? Discover how to design your mobile app, hire an app developer, and get your app published on the app store - no tech experience needed. Enjoy this audiobook, created by number one global appreneur who quit her job and published over 430 apps with over 25 million downloads worldwide.

In Get More Clients for Web Design or Development, author Dekker Fraser draws from both top-line marketing training received while earning his Master's degree at Kellogg School of Management and years of web design business experience to offer you a proven and powerful specialized website development business model that will draw new high-paying clients, encourage referrals, and guarantee customer loyalty, so those high-paying clients come back to buy more high-end websites from you.

Learn competitive business strategy from the best. According to strategic planning expert Dr. Chuck Bamford, business strategy is a mixture of instinct and instruction. You already have the instinct - let Bamford provide the instruction you need to hone your business and leadership traits, and lead your organization into a bright future. Bamford’s work stands out from other business leadership audiobooks by providing in-depth processes in a practical format that allows the listener to use the material immediately.

Renowned designer and professional hell-raiser James Victore wants to drag you off your couch and throw you headfirst into a life of bold creativity. He'll guide you through all the twists, trials, and triumphs of starting your creative career, from finding your voice to picking the right moment to start a project (hint: It's now).

This book is a practical guide that explores how startup entrepreneurs and business leaders, who hold no design degrees, can integrate service design into their development cycles to create sustainable, desirable, and profitable new services.

UX Management Methods is a guide for how to lead your UX team to greatness. Learn proven methods for hiring, managing, motivating, and aligning your UX team. Use these insights to focus your team with a road map of key deliverables, present actionable findings to stakeholders, and measure your team's success and return on investment with analytics. If you want to sharpen your user experience leadership skills and build a strong team of talented experts, then you can begin learning UX management methods today.

Combined with the power of design thinking, these extensively researched best practices from some of the world's best design teams will help you nail the fundamentals of product design and do great work. This book includes: learn what the best teams know - that customer research is the base of successful products and companies; how product stories, journey maps, storyboards, and personas can build empathy and understanding; and more.

Real critique has become a lost skill among collaborative teams today. Critique is intended to help teams strengthen their designs, products, and services, rather than be used to assert authority or push agendas under the guise of "feedback". In this practical guide, authors Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry teach you techniques, tools, and a framework for helping members of your design team give and receive critique.

How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling really heard? That it moved the people in it forward in some important way? You’re not alone. In his practice as a designer, Fred Dust began to approach conversations differently. After years of trying to broker communication between colleagues and clients, he came to believe there had to a way to design the art of conversation itself with intention and purpose, but still artful and playful.

Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected representatives. Our embrace of novel technological pathways, Sheila Jasanoff shows, leads to a complex interplay among technology, ethics, and human rights.

Master Artificial Intelligence in no time, even if you're a total beginner or a tech novice with our essential guide — Empower your career and simplify your daily life! Does the world of AI and machine learning seem intimidating, complex, or out of reach? Are you interested in diving into the realm of AI but have no idea where to start? Are you overwhelmed by endless information and complex terminologies that seem to make AI learning more challenging? You're not alone!

In The Multi-Hyphen Life award-winning British author-podcaster Emma Gannon explains that it doesn't matter if you're a part-time PA with a blog, or an accountant who runs an online store in the evenings—whatever your ratio, whatever your mixture, we can all channel our own entrepreneurial spirit to live more fulfilled and financially healthy lives.